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Bearers of Good Tidings – Website seeks to balance ‘bad’ news in media

Website seeks to balance ‘bad’ news in media Bearers of Good Tidings By Venus L. Elumbre Everyday, Filipinos are fed with news that are mostly about crime, war, corruption, and violence. It is the stuff that ordinary Pinoys have for breakfast and late dinner as they tune in to...

An Uneasy Peace: Media and government continue to eye each other with suspicion

Media and government continue to eye each other with suspicion An Uneasy Peace By Nathan J. Lee More than a month after Presidential Proclamation 1017 was lifted, journalists remain restive and worried. “Things have gotten more tense for the media despite the lifting of 1017 because of the series...

Déjà vu Over EO 511

An Arroyo order triggers alarming memories of a media clampdown Déjà vu Over EO 511 By Hector Bryant L. Macale Is Gloria doing an Erap by issuing Executive Order no. 511? On March 6, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed EO 511, setting up a new communications group that would...

The Tale of the (Missing) Tape

By Hector Bryant L. Macale On March 10, Presidential Chief of Staff Mike Defensor said that television station ABC-5 had a taped interview with Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim announcing his withdrawal of support from the administration. The interview supposedly took place on Feb. 23, the eve of the 20th...

REVIEW: REVIEW: Palace Documentary justifies PP1017

REVIEW: Palace Documentary justifies PP1017 SEEING TREASON n By Datu Jamal Ashley Abbas The movie Good Night and Good Luck (2005) showcased what many consider as television journalism’s finest moments when American broadcast journalist Edward Murrow and his team took head-on the Terror known as McCarthyism or the Red...

Chronicle

CMFR and Article 19 book on Philippine press out The London-based Article 19, an international human rights organization campaigning for free expression and information around the world, has just released a series of baseline studies on the state of press freedom in seven Southeast Asian countries, including the Philippines....

Crisis: International

Tarlac journalist slain A community journalist was gunned down by unidentified men on his way home on April 2 in Tarlac City. Orlando Mendoza, a columnist for several local newspapers, was ambushed by the armed men while on his way home, and sustained fatal wounds in the head and...

Crisis: International

Police closes down radio station An independent radio station in Uganda was closed down on Mar. 13 for airing a show critical of the military and a ruling party candidate in the municipal elections last February. Police in the northern town of Gulu showed the station Choice FM a...

Government and the Business of Media

By Jose L. Pavia When government runs media, it is in effect saying that the best way to tell the story of government is for it to do the telling. And, given the reach and power of media, obvious is the choice for it in getting the story told....

Covering a ‘coup’: Lost in Fort Bonifacio

By Booma B. Cruz SO WHAT really happened in Fort Bonifacio on Feb. 26? For those watching on television, it was like an unfolding drama. But for journalists who went to the military camp that day, it was more like a comedy gone awry. From start to finish, the...

Bearers of Good Tidings – Website seeks to balance ‘bad’ news in media

An Uneasy Peace: Media and government continue to eye each other with suspicion

Déjà vu Over EO 511

The Tale of the (Missing) Tape

REVIEW: REVIEW: Palace Documentary justifies PP1017

Chronicle

Crisis: International

Crisis: International

Government and the Business of Media

Covering a ‘coup’: Lost in Fort Bonifacio

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